Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> The above is actually a really good reason why we do not spend more
> cycles on Solaris/SPARC.
>> The machines are overpriced, and underperforming. It is like buying an
> iPhone, just not as useful.
>This is the most stupid thing I've seen in a while. Go to a bank and
take a look in the
datacentre. Hurry, before they go out of business. :-(
Please, try to consider what real users do, and what sort of
heterogeneous systems they
actually have. I'd wager that there are a lot more SPARC/Solaris
systems deployed to
live than there are AMD/Solaris, and where new SPARC systems are being
deployed
they are generally rather important.
That'll change, and we'll get to the point where the SPARC systems are
database engines
rather than application engines first. But the reality is that Solaris
shops tend to be
conservative.
And no, I'm not disagreeing that x86 doesn't give more bang for the buck
for CPU
grunt. That's not the point at all. SPARC might be slow(ish) but its
not broke.
This is a question of user need vs developer convenience. I think your
attitude is
inappropriate if you want to push Mono as a realistic alternative to
Java. Which
does work rather well on Solaris.
James